Re: [ANN] Standard Thesaurus Economics in RDFa/SKOS (tech preview)

I have a non-technical question, but an important one for me - if you
can, can you say which in direction the licencing is headed? Open Data?
Creative Commons? or something restrictive?

Thanks,
Ben O'Steen

> Neubert Joachim wrote:
> > Dear LODers,
> >  
> > I'd like to announce here a tech preview of the "Standard Thesaurus
> > Economics" as a RDFa/SKOS application.
> >  
> > The german/english thesaurus
> > (http://www.zbw.eu/e_databases/e_econis/e_standard_thesaurus.htm)
> > contains 6,500 richly interlinked concepts. At the German National
> > Library of Economics (ZBW) and other institutions it is used for more
> > than ten years to index literature from economics and business practice.
> >  
> > As a preview, http://www.zbw.eu/beta/stw contains only a hand full of
> > concepts (indeed the test set used in the development of the conversion
> > scripts). Some things have still to be fixed - most notably, the
> > licensing policy, but also the "user experience" of the web site ;)
> >  
> > Nevertheless I would be very happy to get some feedback, especially about
> >  
> > 1) the URI design (which can't be changed easily after the whole set is
> > published)
> > 2) the approach to versioning (preserving the concept's identity but
> > providing "historical data" for human lookup)
> > 3) the links into the library catalog (which, for the lack of a standard
> > attribute, are implemented by a custom stw:indexes subproperty of
> > rdfs:seeAlso)
> > 4) the usefulness as a possible interlinking hub in the LOD cloud
> >  
> > Comments are highly welcome (on other topics as well, of cause).
> >  
> > Cheers, Joachim
> >  
>

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:48:30 UTC